Orva is a brilliant and
highly entertaining game. Fun for humans as well as giraffes. The
rules are quite simple - if you want them to be because there are very few:

Hit the cloth with the stick and make it
land on the other side of the net. Or send it to a player on your
own team. The cloth is not allowed to touch the ground. If you are a
giraffe you can use your antenna instead of a stick.

There are two teams but you can be as many
or few players as you like.

Any player can make a new rule when
he/she/it feels like it. Once a rule has been made both teams have to
stick to it for the rest of the game.

The Orva-field can be any size or shape and
it can be anywhere you want it to be.

Water Orva is not recommended if you are
playing with giraffes (unless there are giraffes on both teams). They are
very tall and impossible to beat in a water-game because they don't have to
come up for air.

Ewan McGregor demonstrating a perfect
smash using a lightsword as an Orva-stick (you don't have to use a light
sword if you don't own one)

Orva is a well known game in Congo.
Giraffs Without Borders employees often play with the local giraffes and
humans. GWB employees on this picture are Elijah Wood (front, left) and
Julia Roberts (front, right). The giraffe is Rafigi Raph Junior. The first
giraffe ever to be adopted by humans through Giraffs Without Borders.